ssl required?

That depends what your site is going to be used for. Generally speaking, sites that offer some sort of service or product that can be purchased, even if linked to paypal or secpay, allow for user logins so they can have their personal carts, etc. If you are going to have a login section, it's better to have it with SSL, as customers (or potential customers) will feel more at ease knowing that the transactions or logging in is secure. A lot of people won't appreciate you not having SSL if they log in or whatnot.

However, if you are just going to have a catalog which they can pick what they want, and just go directly to paypal or secpay to pay, it's not entirely necessary.

I own 2 businesses... 1 of them an ecommerce site. I don't allow them to directly purchase from the site, but I link up with paypal for that, and I use SSL. I wouldn't have it any other way.

secure ssl

Yes... in todays world, people want to know everything about them is secure.. even their address. There are always those looking to find out info on people so they can try to spam or sell their products and services, so they steal info on others however they can.

I mean you could get away with having their address sent unsecurely, but that's not something I would recommend.

Yes... in todays world, people want to know everything about them is secure.. even their address. There are always those looking to find out info on people so they can try to spam or sell their products and services, so they steal info on others however they can.

I mean you could get away with having their address sent unsecurely, but that's not something I would recommend.

okay, thanks very much for your help

my last question is, (i have been looking at secpay) what payment gateway do you use?

secpay

I will email you when it's up and going. You mention that you would be interested to see when it kicks in. I have my ecommerce site set to essentially have them log in before they can do anything useful.. like adding products or whatnot. So my SSL kicks in when they log in. But hopefully I'll have it up by the end of the month... If anyone ever responds to my post..

I will email you when it's up and going. You mention that you would be interested to see when it kicks in. I have my ecommerce site set to essentially have them log in before they can do anything useful.. like adding products or whatnot. So my SSL kicks in when they log in. But hopefully I'll have it up by the end of the month... If anyone ever responds to my post..

paypal vs. secpay

Just checked out secpay.... Secpay seems to charge more for different things... with secpay, there is a monthly service charge ranging from 10 pounds to 225 pounds. There's also a connection fee of 50. And then if you make less than 60 transactions, it costs 39p per transaction.